TEXTILE ARTS - EMBROIDERY -- (HALF-LENGTH PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN). (France?, 2nd half 19th c.?). Delicately cold. lithograph portrait w. silk embroidered (head-)dress with fruits & flowers, lace collar, metal & beads earrings, metal & artificial pearl beads double necklace. 650 x 460 mm (highest & widest parts of the image). (Print w. some light foxing, a bit of the jute background material showing at the edges of the work, a few of the pearl beads lacking, some yarn at the top coming loose, near the bottom some of the yarn may have been affected by moths(?), a very pretty and curious piece of craftswomanship).